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Effective Use of Social Software in Education - link to PDF
Jisc final report
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Portfolio simulation with social bookmarking in Higher Education - Link to PDF
The instructional aims of this case study emphasize the use of information technology in learning; the collection, selection, evaluation, and sharing of information; discussions with peers; learning from peer feedback; construction of learning communities; and knowledge construction.
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Delivering University Curricula: Knowledge, Learning and INnovation Gains — University of Leicester
Increasing student engagement using podcasts
- The DUCKLING project - funded by JISC - at the University of Leicester develops advanced delivery, presentation and assessment processes to enhance the work-based learning experience for students studying remotely. The project will demonstrate the practical marriage of sound approaches in delivery together with new technologies and work–based pedagogies for learning support, communication and assessment of professional adult learners from commencement to completion of the programme of study.
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Using del.icio.us In Education
How social book marking can support teaching/learning
- Editing educational material
- HOW CAN DEL.ICIO.US SUPPORT TEACHING/LEARNING?
- Mechanism for informal, formative feedback.
- Developing content management abilities
- Support for lectures
- Mechanism for building learning communities
- Research.
- Support for individual or group projects:
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Twitter, Wordle, and ChimeIn as Student Response Pedagogies (EDUCAUSE Quarterly) | EDUCAUSE
Undergraduate Twitter experiment
- One of the grant's goals was to encourage experimentation that might lead to scalable, sustainable, transformative, technology-enhanced pedagogies that could better serve the entire university community and perhaps the greater education community as well.
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Professors Use Twitter to Increase Student Engagement and Grades | Faculty Focus
The Impact of Twitter on learning - an experiment. Includes a video "Academic Excellence in 140 Characters".
- In the article The Effect of Twitter on College Student Engagement and Grades, published in November 2010 by the Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, Junco revealed the findings of the 14-week study by concluding that it “provides the first piece of controlled experimental evidence that using Twitter in educationally relevant ways can increase student engagement and improve grades, and thus, that social media can be used as an educational tool to help students reach desired college outcomes.”
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Saturday 11 June 2011
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